MER 214 Strength of Materials Course Page

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Administration

• Syllabus & Assignments

Additional Notes

• Additional notes are here.

Homework & Additional Problem Solutions

• Problem solutions are here.  The scanned JPGs are from the solutions manual of your text; the PDFs are mine.

Quiz & Final Exam Solutions

• Quiz and Final Exam solutions are here.

Laboratories

• Lab Notebook Guidelines
• Lab Report Guidelines
• Sample Lab Report
• LabWrite Project:  tips on how to improve your lab report including grading rubric (from NCSU)
• Lab 1:  Handout
• Lab 2:  Handout; test data are here.
• Lab 3:  Handout; test data are here.
• Lab 4:  Handout; test data are here.
• Lab 5:  Handout; test data are here.
• Lab 6:  Handout

Lab 7 Beam Design Competition

• Guidelines
• Read the Material Safety Data Sheet for polystyrene foam.
• USE CAUTION WHEN WORKING WITH POLYSTYRENE:  toxic fumes result when hot-wire cutting; irritating dust forms when mechanically cutting.
• Other useful documents are here.